Career Assessments & Exploration

Explore careers and discover your strengths.

Explore in-demand careers, learn about education and training options, and discover tools to better understand your personal strengths. Access assessments and resources to help you choose a major, plan your career, and reach your goals.

Find the Right Career Path

Take a Career Assessment to learn more about your interests, values, and strengths. Career Coach provides personalized career suggestions and connects you with information on:

• Local wages and job outlook
• Employment trends and demand
• Education and training requirements
• Career data for specific jobs and industries
• Ozarks Tech programs that lead directly to your desired career
• Civilian careers related to your military experience

Understand Your Strengths

“What will happen when we think about what is right with people rather than fixating on what is wrong with them?” – Donald O. Clifton, Father of Strengths Psychology and Grandfather of Positive Psychology

CliftonStrengths, Gallup’s strengths development program, helps identify what you naturally do best. The online assessment reveals your top five strengths from a list of 34 talents and provides insights to help you:

• Leverage your strengths to achieve personal, academic, and professional goals
• Understand how you naturally think, feel, and behave
• Overcome challenges by focusing on your unique abilities

Access is only available to Ozarks Tech students, faculty, and staff.

Important Career Exploration Resources and Links

These suggested resources are available as supplemental tools to help individuals make effective college-major and career-choice decisions. We strongly recommend completion of the Career Coach assessment first and then use these websites to continue with the career decision-making journey. These links connect you with additional online resources that are helpful for the career exploration process:

• Graduate Survey
• O*NET Online
• The Enneagram Institute
• Career Information Videos:
  • CandidCareer+
  • JobsMadeReal
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
• Bureau of Labor Statistics – Wage Estimates
• Missouri Connections
• Living Wage Calculation for Missouri
• WorkKeys – National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC)